Ring promo, Foster City
| Tracking # |
19-7 |
| Submitted | Aug. 6, 2019 |
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From: Caroline Haskins
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Law enforcement agencies around the country are entering into Promotional Discount Agreements with Ring, Amazon's home security camera company. (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ag37/us-cities-are-helping-people-buy-amazon-surveillance-cameras-using-taxpayer-money) These agreements direct city funds toward providing a discount on Ring products, such as doorbell cameras.
Therefore, I hereby request the following records related to Ring and possible Promotional Discount Agreements:
1) All calendar invitations, instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials (including recorded video and audio, PowerPoint files, prepared remarks, and slides formats), and other documents that mention Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app. This includes A) any minutes/notes taking during meetings that discussed the use of Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app, B) any explanations (whether internally or externally generated) of how Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app work, and C) any other document that has been used to help explain the use, marketing, or promotion of Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app to any party, including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries.
2) A copy of any privacy impact assessments, use policies, standard operating procedures, data retention policies, legal opinions, warranties, non-disclosure agreements, contracts, liability waivers, insurance agreements, Promotional Discount Agreements, Requests for Proposals, Responses to Requests for Proposal, Memorandums of Understanding, Letters of Interest, usage policies, or informal agreements between the city and Ring.
3) A copy of any funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports that mention Ring or the Neighbors app, as well as audit records, including but not limited to security audits of the software, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies.
4) Any digital communications including but not limited to emails and text messages) as well as documents, (including but not limited to PDF, word processing, excel, and slide documents) that mention Ring or the Neighbors app.
5) Any digital communications (including but not limited to emails and text messages) between city government workers with Ring representatives.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. It will be used in the course of reporting for Motherboard, VICE’s science and technology website (www.motherboard.vice.com).
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Caroline Haskins
From:
Foster City, CA
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Hi there
Your first Foster City, CA record request (request number #19-7) has been submitted.
It is currently unpublished and is not available for the general public to view.
The City of Foster City has received your Public Records Act request and we will provide a response within 10 days of receiving your request.
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From: City Clerk Foster City
Hi Caroline,
The City of Foster City & the Foster City Police Department received PRA requests (77649-34096691 & 77650-72095319<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>) from you in regards to Ring and the Neighbors App. I sent our response to you on 8/7/19. We just received another request which appears to be very similar to the original ones we received last month. Can you please confirm that you received my response on 8/7/19 and if you have had a chance to look over the documents provided? I am trying to find out if the most recent request (78643-28558376) is a duplicate or a follow-up from the documents I sent you last week. Please clarify, thank you!
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From: City Clerk Foster City
Foster City, CA
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Hi there
Record request #19-7 has been closed. The closure reason supplied was:
This request has been marked as fulfilled. Please let us know if you have any questions by responding to this message or calling (650) 286-3250
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From: City Clerk Foster City
Foster City, CA
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Hi there
A document has been released for record request #19-7 along with the following message:
Please see the attached letter in response you your request.
* Response Letter.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After September 22, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Caroline Haskins
Hi, none of these responses have included attachments or links, and I also don't have a nextrequest account and was never given a link to sign up. Is there any way you could send the responsive documents in a note to this email address? Thank you so much!
From: City Clerk Foster City
Foster City, CA
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Hi there
A document has been released to you for record request #19-7:
* Response Letter.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After September 23, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Foster City Clerk
Thank you for your message. The response letter is a link in the original email you received. An account is not necessary to access to the link.
I'll re-link below, please let me know if you have any further issue and I'll contact technical support. My apologies for any inconvenience.
file:///C:/Users/theso_000/Downloads/Response%20Letter.pdf
Thank you,
Yelena
From: Caroline Haskins
Hi Yelena, I'm still not getting a document — it just says "file:///C:/Users/theso_000/Downloads/Response%20Letter.pdf." You can also reaching via email at caroline.haskins@vice.com if there's some trouble with this address.
From: City Clerk Foster City
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out. My apologies, I’ve attached the response letter here for convenience. I’ll ask technical support about why the email address requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com> was not able to access the link.
Thank you,
Yelena
From:
Ok I can read the letter here! Thanks so much for your help. Sorry for any
inconvenience that other email address caused. (I filed the request using a
service called Muckrock, which generates a unique email for each public
record request. Sometimes there's little issues that come along with that.)
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Caroline Haskins
Staff Writer, Motherboard <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us> / VICE
From: Caroline Haskins
Ok great, thank you!
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following California Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 6, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #19-7.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following California Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 6, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #19-7.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: City Clerk Foster City
Hello,
Thank you for your email. Please see the attached original response from August 29. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Yelena
Yelena Cappello
Deputy City Clerk
Communications/City Clerk Department
610 Foster City Boulevard I Foster City, CA 94404
t 650.286.3252 I ycappello@fostercity.org<mailto:ycappello@fostercity.org>
From: City Clerk Foster City
Foster City, CA
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